In light of these developments, Creamer Media’s Base Metals 2014 Report examines the global base metals market, with a particular focus on supply and demand, and on the production of copper, zinc, nickel and lead, as well as selected base metals operations and projects in Africa. →

By: Pimani Baloyi
Richards Bay-headquartered heavy-equipment manufacturer Bell Equipment, which has several large-scale South Africa-based projects in the 2015 pipeline, will exhibit its new B60 articulated dump truck (ADT) mining range at this year’s Investing in African Mining Indaba, which will take place at... →

By: Chantelle Kotze
Although the resource listings on the JSE have declined significantly over the last 20 years, from 130 listed mining companies in 1994 to only 66 basic resource companies (in the mining and industrial metals, as well as the mining sectors), the total market capitalisation of mining companies... →

By: Chantelle Kotze
Although the resource listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has declined significantly over the last 20 years, from 130 listed mining companies in 1994 to only 66 basic resource companies today (including mining sectors and industrial metals and mining sectors), the total market... →

By: Natalie Greve
Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has said that an investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into a 2010 black economic-empowerment (BEE) deal by Gold Fields will have no immediate impact on the South African gold miner’s credit ratings. The agency said in a... →

By: Henry Lazenby
TSX- and ASX-listed Newcrest Mining on Monday said ratings agency Moody's announcement that it had revised its credit rating from Baa2 to Baa3 with a negative outlook was not expected to impact on its existing debt arrangements.
Newcrest confirmed that there were no triggers in its existing debt... →

By: Henry Lazenby
Canada is expecting a boom in oil production from its prolific Alberta oil sands deposits; however, production from the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, is hampered by a lack of sufficient transport to markets, resulting in lower prices for Canadian... →

By: Henry Lazenby
Canada is expecting a boom in oil production from its prolific Alberta oil sands deposits; however, production from the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, is hampered by the lack of sufficient transport to markets, resulting in lower prices for Canadian... →

By: Henry Lazenby
Following last week’s fatal derailment and explosion of a fully laden oil train, which partially destroyed the town of Lac-Mégantic, in Quebec, Canadian and US authorities were expected to increase the regulatory burden on rail shipments of crude and petroleum products. This could result in... →

Ratings agency Moody’s Investor Service on Thursday warned that environmental factors, such as water scarcity, could adversely impact on the ratings of global mining companies if they failed to proactively manage the accompanying operational and political risks to their businesses. In its ‘Global... →

The market capitalisation of Western Australia listed companies that comprise the Deloitte WA Index decreased 11.5% during May to A$145.4-billion, mirroring the downward pressure experienced by the global equity markets.
“The fall in the market capitalisation was driven largely by decreases in... →